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ROBBERY BATEys THEORY.
Griffin or tho Gorge OF the Mis.
sfssipp1.

shssippi.
". A. Reyes In Popular Science for August.l
The Falls of the Niagara are
familiar to all. and came to exist
through causes natural and easy Of
explanation, inasmuch as the whole
secret lies in the character Of the for
nations over which the river flows,
namely, q crust made up OF from six.
~ to 100 feet Of comparatively hard
limestone lying in a nearly horizontal
position, beneath which is deep de-
posit OF shales and saudstones.
Whenever the river in wearing its
channel back reached the point
where this arrangement of rocks
began, the hard limestone would
naturally resist the erosive action Of
the waters, while the underlying
shales and sandstones, Offering less
resistance, would rapidly cut away,
until q vertical fall such as is now
seen would be the result, with con-
slant recession going on, leaving
below the broad canyon, walled on
either hand by bluffs, the crests Of
which are preserved by the lime
stone GROWING them.
These few reflections as 10 the falls
and gorge Of Niagara, fully demon
strated by forces now in active oper-
alton, we shall apply to the Missis-
sippi. Here also a mighty water
way has been cut out by erosion. a
fact which is universally conceded,
but no definite explanation Of the
process has heretofore, so Tar as we
have been able to learn, been ad-
vanced. 1t remained for geology
reading inventor by the name Of
Robert Bates TO suggest q theory
which, illuminated with what little
investigation we have been able to
give it, promises TO offer q solution
OF the question, or to assist in its So
luton. The theory briefly is, that
the erosion was accomplished by
means Of mighty cataract which be-
gan far down the river near its origi-
nal mouth, and by gradual retroces-
sion dug out the valley-like gorge
which is 30 marked q feature in the
upper part Of its course, and left the
high bluff walls on either hand, at
the same time depositing heavy beds
OF sand at the bottom Of the canon,
the product OF the erosion above,
and that Sc. Anthony Falls are the
ever decreasing and receding rem
nants OF the once most stupendous
cataract the world ever saw, having
perpendicular descent OF perhaps
six hundred feet.
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SAVED nj A sNEEzg.

Twelve men made ~ the iurJi
1hsy were deaf and dumb md blind,
Not one q them was uOublsd
With q particle Of mind.
And the counsel Tor the prisoner
kesmsd satisfied and pleased,
The jury 40 and snesssd.
10 vr,th M rose ths, lAvysr then,
And IRE vas 10 HIS sytl
lie suore By n the planets aud
Tho comets In the say.
Then challenged he that luryman
Ard Why, do you tupro'et
Bocsufe hts tnestint seemed 10 show,
lie knew he had nostl
I'D Flank Llttabsr.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-31
a Complicated Case.

NbsnNh~ btAA
A Dakota attorney who sdvertises
10 mako difficult, collections, while
recently in the East, was speaking
with a man for whom he had tried
TO make collection and failed.
"iou advertise that you make
difficult collections q specially, don't
youin asked the Eastern man.
"Yes, sir, replied the Dakota at
torney.
We'll, why didn't you get that
Riley matter settled up that We sent
"That was a peculiar case. | don't
know whether | can get that money
or not. You see took my shotgun
tho instrument | use in making
colleotions-and drove out 70 see
Riley. tied my horse and was
walking toward the house with both
hammers % the gun up and my fin.
gers on the triggers, intending TO
make the collection as soon as saw
him, when suddenly, without any
warning whatever, he opened fire on
me from o knot hole in the side
Of the house. | returned the
shots aud held my own for
Ia while, but as he was con.
ccaled and | stood out in plair
sight. the consequence was that |
finally went down the road with my
legs full OF shot aud Riley's bulldol
hanging onto my soattail. lilo kept
my horse aud buggy and | haven
secn them since. Ii is the first time
my shotgun has failed Ia making 1
difficult collection. II Is q yer!
peculiar case aud | hardly know how
10 proceed. intend to ask th'
Judge of our district when | &c
back and SEQ what he thinks about Il
lie Is an old resident Of the Terri
tory and may be able to give me
pointer or lend mo some improved
yeanon,
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ORDINARY mortas will be pleased to
know that the dfcaa Of the Princess Of
Wales. on the occasion Of the Jubilee,
was a cloth Of goli, embroidered with
roses, ahamrocks and Nittles IN nalu-
raj coloiB.
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Another story Of Miss De La Ramc
C"Ouida") comes TO the fore. This
Is of recent sojourn she made at a
leading hotel Of London. Every
week, according TO the custom, the
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Rotten Row.

Hyde Park, with the adjoining Ken
sington Gardens, is a very large in
closure with drives. grassy lawns, and
fine trees, and with a pretty river run
ming through it. Near Hyde Park
Corner, where we enter, are some
magnificent residences, among which
is Apsley House, belonging to the
Duke of Wellington. One of the roads
in Hyde Park is called Rotten Row,
and is devoted entirely to horseback
riding. There is nothing decayed
about this Row, and it is said that the
place used to be called Route du R0i,
the Road of the King, and it has grad
ually been corrupted into Rotten Row.
There are many proper names which
the English people pronounce very
differently from the way in which they
are spelled: ST. John, for instance, is
pronounced Singe-on; Beauchamp is
Beecham; and when they wish TO men
ton the name Cholmondeley, they say
Chumley, while Sevenoaks has become
Shocks.
From twelve to two o'clock we NAV
see Rotten Row filled with lady and
gentlemen riders, trotting or galloping
up and down. But the finest sight of
Hyde Park begins about five o'clock in
the afternoon, when the carriages of
the nobility and gentry fill the long
drive on the south side of the Park.
There is no place in the world where
we can see so many fine horses and
carriages, so much fashion, so much
wealth, and 50 much aristocracy, in a
comparatively small space, as in Hyde
Park, between five and seven O'Clock
in the afternoon, during what is called
the London season. From King
London" by Frank r. Stockton, in ST.
NichOI0s
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-07-07
4 German Wedding.

The Berlin correspondent OF the
London Times teiegraphs:
At Iglau, III Morayia, the marriage
took place of the young lady in whom
the Emperor William has taken great
interest since he made her acquaint-
ancc at Gastein some six years ago,
Every day during that visit the en-
peror. sittiG" st the window of his
hotel, noticed the young lady in ques-
ton, who is the daughter of a cloth
manufacturer, at the window of the
opposite hotel in the Straubinger platz,
So it happened that when one day the
familiar face was missing, the mon
arch sent an adjutant to inquire the
cause. Thus the little romance began,
and the AIRED emperor never ceased
his interest in the fraulein, who was
Il clever, wen-educated, ana lively girl,
but not beauty in the ordinary
sense. The emperor addressed her
whenever they met on his walks, and
from year to year he pressed her for a
promise 10 come again the following
season. The monarch further obtained
a promise from her that if she should
become hetrothed she would let him
know This happened last winter,
and the lady thought politeness re-
CURED her to inform the emperor of her
wedding with Herr Kilian, a merchant
OF iglau. The consequence was that
on Saturday morning there arrived
a large parcel from Berlin, containing
a bracelet richly set with diamonds, Il
jewel-boX adorned with the imperial
crown, accompanied by letter from
the first court chamberlain saying that
the emperor himself chose this present,
and that he desired the bride to wear
the bracelet at the ceremony. This
was only accomplished with some diff
Guilty as the customhouse officials would
not deliver the jewelry until it had re-
ceive the Austrian hall mark. High
perSonages had to interfere to enable
Fraulein Kern to wear the emperor's
present during the ceremony, which
took place in the Jewish synagogue
at lglau.
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Making Play of Work.

Did you ever hit on this way to
get cluttered sitting-room put to
rights by the little folks who have
brought about in it chaos itselfP The
children think it great fun to overturn
chairs and hang rugs on them for tent
doors; to strew the carpet with play
things and snippings of paper; to
drop books, picture cards, building
/ blocks, and dolly and her wardrobe,
just where the newest tack of their
| latest play left them; but it is not al
ways fun, either for you or them. to
get all this litter and clutter picked up
and cleaned away,
Of late we have made little game
of such work by giving each child so
| many breadths of the carpet, and all
that might be upon them, to put in
perfect order. There are five breadths
in our sitting-room carpet, and at
such "corner" in the disorderly
state of the room, | give two breadths
not consecutive lengths-to each of
the two older children, and the fifth
breadth to the little three-years-old,
choosing for her the strip of carpet
| that has the least litter upon it. When
Dllic CulItiItH nave hctI lnlGEeSl
such work, it is surprising how swiftly
they will straighten rugs. fold papers,
pick up shreds and litter. and pack
away playthinss.
From end to end of their carpet
breadths or small people go,-setting
back chairs. making neat piles of the
scattered books and papers that clat-
ter the tables and shelves, winding the
stra ggling threads in mammals spool
and yarn baskets if they chance to be
on their territory, winging the hearth,
and patting up. plump and smooth,
chair and lounge pillows. till even
mammals sharp eyes cannot see an
other raveling TO pick or one more
paper to fold. She can quietly 60 on
with her sewing or mending all
througha long afternoon while her
room is alternately being put in and
then put ont of order, only she must
be wise enough to plan that the former
comes last on the programme before
their supper OF bedtime hour comes.
The children are SO quick to notice
and herald each others oversights and
any slovenliness III this play-wOrk OF
clearing sections of the room, that
have little need of calling their at
tention to any article or scrap left
out of place. Even the baby viii II
| across the room to reproyingly point
to wrinkled rug or an overlooked
toy on strip of her little sisters ter
ritory, and gravely say: See therei''
| If chair or table, with its tumbled
heap of books or papers, stands on
taoo carpet breadths, the exacting lit
tie landholders require each other to
| put to rights just such part as stands
on their division of territory, and the
chair, basket, or stand, / have seen
the little tots good-naturedly lug away
| together. - idriSSa Potter, in Good
! H0uSekeepiHQ
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Betuopg Among Undergraduate.

From an article on College Boat
Racing. and the New London Regattas,
by Julian Hawthorne, supplemented
by paper by Henry Eckford, in the
Century, we quote the following con-
clusion to the chapter on the wagers
among collegians on the races: ''But
can betting on the university races be
stopped? That is not to be expected;
but it can be enormously diminished,
and that by no one else than by the
crews themselves. If they will dis
pense with all DISCUSSES and subter-
fuges, and let themselves be known
for just what they are, neither more
nor less, then betting will lose nine
tenths of its impetus. Nor will the
pleasurable elements of legitimate I'M
certainty as To the result ever be
absent; for, however apparent it may
seem that one of the crews is superior
to the other, there are a dozen posi-
bilities that this anticipation may be
defeated when the race actually comes
to be rowed. One man may overtrain;
another MAY catch crab; the stroke
may turn out more effective than it
looked; or the crew that had never
done itself justice in practice may
awaken under the spur of actual COM
petition, and surprise its friends and
strike aghast its enemies. No race is
ever won until 1t has been rowed. And
even If the prophets prove correct, de-
feat Will be no worse, nor victory any
less sweet, if it has been expected be-
forehand 1t is rare privilege, too,
the opportunity to do ones utmost
for no other reward than the parsley
crown. 1t is a privilege which comes
seldom In after life, as these young
gentlemen will discover in due time"
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GirdIes and Girls.

Ever since Eve first put on corsets
there have been fippant illusions
made TO supposed fondness
that young ladies cherish of having
their waists squeezed. No visible
weakness has ever been offered to the
public's gaze until recently. But it's
here now, and the girls can't dodge it.
The silver girdle business has become
fashionable. and young men who are
addicted to the arm act are as blue as
policemen It's hard enough to make
an impression through corset armor,
but when silver log chain is added
mashitive humanity gives up and takes
to lamp-posts.
The new girdle is just such an ar
rangement as the Grecian maidens
used to wear (B. c. to keep their
Mother Hubbards from soaring over
their heads and leaving them in the
highly ridiculous and embarrassing
position of reversed umbrella 1t is
made of silver links or plates, and is
worn outside of everything, for the
simple reasons that it would be very
uncomfortable thing to wear inside and
would seriously interfere with the fit
of a dress. Again, more people see
it on the outside, and that's what it's
worn for. As an article of clothing the
girdle is not a practical success. 1t
affords very little protection i'll rain
storm or n blizzard, and is calculated
to breed corns on the hip.
Naturally, it is worn around the
waist, because it's too big for the neck.
and girl couldn't grab her skirts with
one hand and her back hair with the
other if she wore it around her arms.
A smelling-bottle, box of caramels,
a powder puff, or, in fact, almost any
thing can be hitched to the front end
of the girdle as an excuse for wearing
it. 1t is convenient place to carry
surplus hairpins.
Within the last week or two Fifth
avenue and Madison avenue girls have
bloomed out with girdles. They are
an expensive shackle. But with all
their drawbacks they have many adj
vantages. When girl is drowning a
girdle is a much surer thing to
lift her out with than hair Hair
is liable to come off. In walking
through a crowd the escort could take
a hitch of the chain around his wrist
anu NC uedu SURF Va MS prey. linen
they are convenient. things to attach
dogs to, and in case of defense can
be used as slung shot. When travel
ing and living in strange hotels a
girl will find the girdle an infinit source
of protection by using it to attach the
door-knob to the bedpost.
When the wearer disrobes she hangs
the shackles over a chairback, as she
does her stockings. They won't stand
up in the corner because they are too
weakened.
The girls have got the girdle very
badly. 1t is liable to injure the matri-
monial market some.
But, after all, girdled girl is the
delicacy of the seaSon.-NeU York
Herald.
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A Story OF Bishop Wilberforce.

A few days ago heard a good story
of Bishop Wilberforce, which l have
never seen in print, and which is GER
tainly not to be found in his Life"
The bishop was travelling on the Great
Western railway, in one of the old
fashioned broad gauge carriages, and
was seated at one end of it, when he
heard truculent voice at the other
exclaim: Il would dearly like to meet
that bishop of Oxford. will be bound
l would puzzle him" Every WELL"
replied the bishop to the speaker, who
had not perceived him, "now is your
time, for am that person" The man
was rather taken aback, but, quickly
recovering, said: well, my lord,
can you tell plain man a plain way
to get to heavenp" Certainly" said
the bishop; nothing is more easy.
You have only to turn at once to the
right, and go straight forward. Ion
don Truth.
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Mealy Potatoes.

Carefully wash the potatoes in plen-
ty of cold water with soft cloth or
brush; if they are to be boiled, peel off
small ring of the skin from each.
and leave them in fresh, cold water
Half an hour before they are wanted
for the table, put them over the fire in
plenty of sailed, boiling water, and
boil them until they can be easily
pierced with fork, but not until they
begin to break open; fifteen minutes
for small potatoes, twenty to twenty
five for larger ones. will be long
enough to boil them to this point.
When they are tender, drain them;
cover them with clean towel, folded;
set the saucepan where the potatoes
cannot burn, and keep thepkaf until
they are needed for ths efoF. For
baking, carefully wash tt4ns but do
not peel them, and allow at least a
half hour in hot oven for medium
sized potatoes. Serve them as soon
as they are done, as they deteriorate if
they stand after they are soft.--satllei
C0rSoR, IN Good Housekeeping.
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Fish Ponds in Springy Places.

When it becomes desirable to con-
struct fish pond in a place where
there are springs, or to dam up the
water and make a pond in a springy
place, it is a good plan to cover the
springs with several loads of gravel
for the fish to spawn on. The borders
Of such pond should be made very
shallow, so that the little fish may
run up in the shallow water and es-
cape the large fish, or have the pond
so arranged that after the fish have
spawned, the large ones may be re-
moved. By so doing, the eggs will
hatch out and the young fish will grow
without danger. When the next sea-
may be removed into another pond
and the old ones let in to spawn again.
Such pond is specially adapted for
persons who cannot devote a great
deal of time to it and who desire to
manage it with just as little care as
possible. In this way a good many
fish can be raised without much
trouble. The gravel must be sifted
and all the fine parts rejected; none
smaller than hickory nut should be
used, and from that to good-sized
hens egg.
Not infrequently the bottom of such
pond is porous and absorbs the wa
ter nearly as fast as it runs in, so that
there is but little if any overflow at
the proper outlet. If you are short of
water and wish to use all that you can
possibly get for another pond or for
other purposes, it is best to cement the
bottom. But if you have no further
use for the water, it makes no differ
ence how it goes off, provided there
are no holes in the bottom large
enough to let the fish escape and the
water keeps up to its level. In case
the water should prove too warm for
trout, such a pond would answer for
bass, perch, goldfish, or carp.-Seth
Green, IN american AgricuLturtst.
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The Queen of Spain's Bracelet.

When l arrived at Madrid from Cor
doya, and drove to my hotel, found
that had for my next-door neighbor
Count Arnim, who was equerry
to Prince Observation-Disclosures,
who, with his wife, the infanta of Por-
tugal, occupied the whole floor below.
This prince, the reader will remember,
was one time a candidate for the throne
of Spain, and he was one of the ex
cuses for the Franco-German war. /
was not sorry he had come to my hotel,
because all the royal family of Spain
came to pay him a visit, and gave me
q good opportunity of seeing them, as
we had to pass each other on the
stairs. The queen of SPANS visit was
delightfully."- simple. She drove up to
the hotel and got out of her carriage
and walked into the passage at in
the afternoon. The prince, who was
watching behind the glass swing doors,
bobbed out and kissed her hand, and
led her upstairs. There were no
police, no crowd, no fuss, no any
thing.
As soon as the queen of Spain had
gone up to the princes room l went to
mine. When | came down the prince
and Count Solms, the German ambas-
sador, and the son of the duke of Mont
pensier Don Antonio) were conduct
ing the queen back to her carriage.
| stood up in corner to let them pass.
The queen, who looked rather worn
and i'll, gave me a pleasant bow and
passed on. As she passed / heard
something fall, and on looking down
I +b,t he hnl I,n,,,al
bracelet. picked it up and was going
to give it to her, but l had to settle
bow to attract her attention first. l
couldn't shout '.Hi!'' to her majesty |
couldn't touch her Git is death to touch
the queen of SPAIN, and | couldn't
say "Oigaw which is the Spanish for
''Hi!' and | didn't know enough Span
ish to make a courtly speech. Sud-
denly l remembered that the queen
was German. In my best German |
exclaimed: Your majesty has dropped
this" The queen, the prince, Don
Antonio, and the German ambassador
all turned round. The price was COM
ing back to fetch the bracelet, but the
queen stopped him with a gesture and
mOtioned me to approach.
Augustus Harris, who was looking
on over the banister, says l did it
beautifully, but l don't remember
quite what l did. / only know that
the queen took the bracelet and made
me a charming speech of thanks in
German, and held out her hand, and
/, being slightly confused, shook it
heartily. Mr.. Harris told me after
ward that | ought not to have shaken
the royal hand, but to have kissed it.
l dare say he is right, because he is
more used to the society of kings
and queens and princesses than l.
Pc